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Name
  
Yurei Yanagi

Spouse
  
Atsuko Kawada (m. 1999)

Role
  
Actor

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Movies
  
Achilles and the Tortoise, Boiling Point, Ring, Ju‑on: The Curse, Helldriver

Similar People
  
Atsuko Kawada, Hideo Nakata, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Takeshi Kitano, Takashi Shimizu

Yūrei Yanagi (柳 憂怜 or 柳ユーレイ, Yanagi Yūrei) is a Japanese actor and tarento born 1963-04-08 in Fuchū, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. Yanagi was originally a member of Takeshi Kitano's gundan. In 1990 he continued to work with Takeshi for the film Boiling Point. Afterwards, he appeared in over eight more films before meeting up with Takeshi again for the 1997 film Hana-bi. His most recent roles have been in horror films such as Ring, Ju-on and Ju-on 2.

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He is married to actress, novelist, and essayist Atsuko Kawada. He is also credited as Masahiko Ono or Yuurei Yanagi.

Partial filmography

  • Boiling Point (1990) as Masaki
  • Don't Look Up (1996) as Toshio Murai
  • Hana-bi (1997) as Chef #1
  • Ring (1998) as AD Okazaki
  • Ring 2 (1999) as AD Okazaki
  • Ju-on (2000) as Shunsuke Kobayashi
  • Carved (2007) as Detective Kubo
  • L: Change the World (2008)
  • The Slit-Mouthed Woman 0: The Beginning (2008)
  • Gothic & Lolita Psycho (2010) as Jiro
  • Helldriver (2010) as Taku
  • Ultraman X (2015) as Takashi Ozora

    • References

    Yūrei Yanagi Wikipedia
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